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advantages and disadvantages. You 

 have all these to learn in your new loca- 

 tion. Life is too short to spend it all in 

 so much learning ; by the time you have 

 only got started to all the promising 

 places, your time will expire here, and 

 you will be called to eternity long before 

 you have got to that good place on earth, 

 unless you stop where 'you are, and 

 make it there. 

 Astor Park, Fla. 



m Foul-Brooi Theory. 



DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Mr. C. J. Robinson is quite right in 

 stating, on page 44, that I do not know 

 all about foul-brood, but please, Mr. R., 

 why do you attribute to me a theory 

 that I never offered as ray own, and in 

 which I do not believe ? Evidently you 

 have based your opinion on the passage 

 you have quoted in your first paragraph. 

 The quotation is not a very brilliant 

 specimen of good English, but taking it 

 just as it is, how can you understand 

 that the theory given in the last sen- 

 tence is mine? I say, "Chilled brood 

 never made foul-brood. Does any one 

 really believe that it ever did ? Do 

 they not rather hold this view ?" and 

 then comes the theory that you say I 

 hold. Now, Mr. R., what did you un- 

 derstand I meant by " this view?" Could 

 it mean anything else than the "view " 

 which immediately follows, and is there 

 any fair ground for the inference that I 

 hold such a view ? Indeed, I do not 

 make the assertion that any one holds 

 such a view, but merely ask the question 

 whether they do not. I really supposed 

 that some such a view was held by those 

 who say that chilled brood makes foul- 

 brood. Fi"om what you say I expect 

 that I was mistaken in this. 



Will you kindly tell us in very plain 

 terms as to your belief ? Suppose that 

 there is no foul-brood within miles of 

 you, and no spore, or any trace of it, 

 allowed to come within that distance, do 

 you believe that you can, merely by 

 allowing brood to be chilled, produce the 

 disease ? In other words, without allow- 

 ing a single bacillus alvei, or spore, to 

 come from elsewhere, can you get chilled 

 brood in just such a condition that the 

 bacilli will be generated therein ? Please 

 tell us about this, and if you answer in 

 the affirmative, I will probably correct 

 my statement, and confess that there is 

 one more thing that I did not know. 



I may say in passing, that while I do 

 not believe that foul-brood spores are 



floating around everywhere, and while, 

 as you say, learned scientists do not 

 know of any bacteria or spores that 

 commonly float around in the atmos- 

 phere except the two you mention with 

 the hard names, there is certainly a 

 little color for such a belief when Frank 

 Cheshire says, "It is extremely likely 

 that spores are carried in the air." 



I am not sure that I fully comprehend 

 your third paragraph, but get from it a 

 suspicion that my white clover illustra- 

 tion was a little muddy — at least not 

 entirely clear. Let me see if I can do a 

 little at clearing it up. I had in mind 

 one who believed in the theory, saying 

 something like this : 



"White clover comes up so plentifully 

 and 50 generally, oven in places where 

 it can hardly seem possible that seed 

 should have been dropped, that one 

 might almost suppose that it had come 

 up of itself, without any seed. In the 

 same way, foul-brood seems to spring up 

 of itself in plaoes where there seems to 

 be no chance for seed or spores to have 

 been brought ; yet in both cases there 

 must, in some way, have been the seed 

 before the growth." 



There, Bro. Robinson, I flatter myself 

 that I have brought it down — or up — 

 even to the comprehension of " mortals," 

 — but, then, " I don't know." 



Marengo, Ills. 



CJouTention riotices. 



J^~The annual meeting of the Colorado 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in 

 Denver, Jan. 18 and 19, 1892. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton, Colo. 



Itag^ The 12th annual Gonvention of the 

 Northeastern Ohio, Northern Pennsylvania 

 and Western New York Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation will he held in Ashtabula, O., on Jan. 27 

 and 28, 1892, in the parlors of " Hotel James," 

 where reduced rates for board have been se- 

 cured for those attending the convention (35 

 cts. per meal). A good program will be pre- 

 pared to be discussed by practical bee-keepers. 

 All interested are invited to attend. Ladies 

 are especially invited. Programs will be sent 

 to all members and to others upon sending a 

 request to the Secretary. 



N. T. Phelps, Pres., Kingsville, O. 



Geo. Spitler, Sec, Mosiertown, Pa. 



I^" The Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its next annual meeting at the 

 West-End Turner Hall, on Freeman Avenue, 

 Cincinnati, O., from Feb. 10 to 12 inclusive, 

 1892, beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 

 10. AH local associations should endeavor to 

 meet with us or send their delegates. Those 

 intending to be present, will please send their 

 names to the Secretary, at their earliest 

 convenience. The President will endeavor to 

 get reduced railroad rates, and also reduced 

 rates at hotels. The programme will soon be 

 issued, and all particulars published. 



C. F. MuTH. Pres., Cincinnati. O. 



S. R. Morris, Sec, Bloomingburg, O. 



